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Edgardo Ramirez Awarded Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

Congratulations to Edgardo Ramirez (Clinical Area in Professor Annette Stanton’s lab) on being awarded the prestigious Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation! The award provides three years of support and is made to individuals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are…

Gio Ramos Awarded Prestigious Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

Congratulations to Gio Ramos (Clinical Area in Professor Denise Chavira’s lab) on being awarded the prestigious Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation! The award is made to individuals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching…

Gio Ramos Receives UCI Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychological Science

Congratulations to Gio Ramos (Clinical Area in Professor Denise Chavira’s lab) on being awarded the UCI Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychological Science! The UCI Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (CPFP) offers postdoctoral research fellowships and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity at the University of…

Riley Marshall and Jordan Parker Receive Jenessa Shapiro Memorial Graduate Award

Congratulations to Riley Marshall (Social Area) and Jordan Parker (Health Area) on receiving the Jenessa Shapiro Memorial Graduate Award. This award honors the values and ideals of the late Professor Jenessa Shapiro, our beloved colleague. The purpose of the award scholarship is to facilitate graduate students’ research at the intersection of psychology and social justice,…

Prof. Lieberman Receives 2023 Distinguished Scholar Award

Congratulations to Professor Matt Lieberman for receiving the 2023 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society. The award honors a scholar who has made distinctively valuable research contributions by significantly advancing our understanding of the biological basis of social and affective processes or expanding the core of social and affective neuroscience discipline.

Prof. Dunkel Schetter to Receive Healthy Campus Initiative Award

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Chris Dunkel Schetter for being selected to receive the Jane B. Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Appreciation & Recognition Award for 2023. The award recognizes UCLA community members who actively demonstrate their support of the principles of the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative in striving to promote the health and wellness of the…

Prof. Eisenberger Receives Mid-Career Award from Society for Affective Science

Congratulations to Professor Naomi Eisenberger for receiving the 2023 Mid-Career Trajectory in Affective Science Award from the Society for Affective Science (SAS). The award honors outstanding scientific impact of SAS members who are in the middle stages of their careers, that is, between 10 and 25 years post-Ph.D. 

Highlighting Faculty Member Rena Repetti

We all know that common daily experiences – good or bad – and our emotional reactions to them can slide under our conscious radar and are easily dismissed. But do their effects disappear? When they keep repeating, what is the long-term impact on us and on our families? Everyday events and emotions shape the very…